Tom Johansmeyer

Tom Johansmeyer is Assistant Vice President and co-head, PCS at Verisk Insurance Solutions. He leads all client- and market-facing activities at PCS, including new market entry, new solution development, and reinsurance/ILS activity. Tom launched the new specialty lines loss reporting program (marine and energy, cyber, and terror), and brought PCS into Turkey. Previously, Tom launched the first corporate blog in the reinsurance sector at Guy Carpenter and did some insurance industry work at Deloitte. He’s a veteran of the U.S. Army, where he proudly pushed paper in a personnel position in the late 1990s.

I got off my bike yesterday after a horrendous ride on Bermuda’s south shore—rain and wind gusts above 60 mph. Thankfully, inspiration is born of adversity, and I decided… (h/t @tracyalloway) As the sole human responsible for @catbondcat —as if anyone could be responsible for him (I’m the total Tomcat)—I’ve had the unique opportunity to learn … Read more

Data or Water? Some memories are hard to shake. Even though we’re in the dead of winter right now, I caught a glimpse of my bike in my apartment and remembered a painful moment from my training last summer. The fact that it stuck with me is telling. It was as powerful as it was … Read more

I stumbled into the industry. My first brush with reinsurance came around 15 years ago, when I was asked to help with a new business proposal during my stint at a management consulting shop. I’d done some system implementation work on the primary market side, but reinsurance was largely foreign to me. We didn’t win … Read more

Four hurricanes and six wildfires made for a busy 2017. So, with all the losses mounting through the third and fourth quarters, it’s understandable that you might not have noticed the heavy cyber losses that occurred as well. Three large risk losses led to approximately $430 million in cyber insurance losses last year, according to … Read more